Steroid Hormone Signaling Is Essential for Pheromone Production and Oenocyte Survival

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Chiang, Yin Ning ^a   Tan, Kah Junn ^a   Chung, Henry ^b   Lavrynenko, Oksana ^c   Shevchenko, Andrej ^c   Yew, Joanne Y ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20 HYDROXYECDYSONIC ACID; ECDYSONE; ECDYSTERONE; HYDROCARBON; PHEROMONE; STEROID HORMONE; STEROID REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LIPID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; STEROID;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DESICCATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LETHALITY; LIFESPAN; LIPOGENESIS; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OENOCYTE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPIDEY GENE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECDYSTERONE; FEMALE; HYDROCARBONS; LIPIDS; MALE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHEROMONES; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDS;

EID: 84977494158     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006126     Document Type: Article

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